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December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12
Computer Weekly European User Awards Criteria and Information

Read the entry criteria and general information about entering the Computer Weekly European User Awards.
December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12
Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories

The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...
December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12
Energy efficiency is top datacentre priority for IT, shows study

More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years
December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12
More security, high-availability and gov-cloud are on AWS users’ wish list

Better security, ease of use, added availability as well as G-cloud features could make AWS cloud more appealing

November 29, 2012 29 Nov'12
AWS launches new EC2 instances and Data Pipeline for big data analytics

AWS has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads as well as AWS Data Pipeline for big data
November 29, 2012 29 Nov'12
AWS re:Invent: Users hold back from putting sensitive data in the cloud

Despite the benefits of cloud and a "cloud-first" strategy, security concerns are stopping many users putting sensitive data in the cloud
November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12
Guardian publisher uses Amazon EC2 to power iPhone app content

Publisher Guardian News & Media uses AWS for cloud-based infrastructure to scale content provision on smartphones and tablets
November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12
AWS re:Invent: Amazon launches data warehouse service Redshift and cuts S3 prices

At its first ever user conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched data warehousing cloud service Redshift and slashed S3 prices
November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12
Private cloud does not bring full benefits of cloud computing, says AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior vice-president Andy Jassy slams private cloud suppliers for failing to deliver the benefits of cloud computing
November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
Orange Digital and EE adopt cloud to save £2m in hosting costs

Orange Digital and EE adopted AWS cloud not just for high scalability but also to cut infrastructure hosting costs by £2m in three years

November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
£60m datacentre to be built in Birmingham

A 10MW modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013
November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
Hyper-V boost pushes Microsoft virtualisation closer to VMware

Microsoft has done a lot to boost its Hyper-V virtualisation software but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, says Gartner
November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012

Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights
November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12
UK rail ticketing services get next-generation facelift with AWS cloud

Rail Settlement Plan, the supplier for IT and retail services to UK rail operators, is using AWS cloud to build next-generation ticketing systems
November 23, 2012 23 Nov'12
Leeds to become home to a new £43m independent datacentre in 2013

Leeds City Council has approved the building of a £43m network-neutral datacentre to boost its internet connectivity and infrastructure
November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12
Firms must measure overall environmental impact of datacentres

IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre’s power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make it truly sustainable
November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12
Green Grid urges businesses use DCMM tool for datacentre efficiency

The Datacentre Maturity Model (DCMM) tool helps businesses improve their datacentres' energy efficiency PUE metric, says The Green Grid
November 21, 2012 21 Nov'12
Datacentre group collaborates with EC over green measures

Datacentre consortium The Green Grid is working with the European Commission (EC) to improve efficiency and sustainability in datacentres
November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12
Organisations will focus on datacentre efficiency in 2013, says Ovum

As businesses seek the best value from investments they will try to reduce costs and improve sustainability in their datacentres in 2013
November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12
Gartner: PaaS revenue to touch $2.9bn in 2016, from $900m in 2011

Global revenue for platform as a service (PaaS) will grow consistently to reach $2.9bn in 2016, intensifying the competition, says Gartner
November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12
Dublin Airport Authority uses virtualisation to overhaul IT

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has launched an IT overhaul project with HP converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform
November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12
SAP certifies use of Business Suites on AWS cloud

SAP has certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its business intelligence (BI) applications, including SAP ERP and SAP CRM, on the AWS cloud
November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12
Dublin Airport Authority turns to virtualisation for CCTV data storage

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is planning to use virtualised servers to store CCTV data for easy retrieval and improved management
November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12
Icann picks Dundee datacentre to host first Scottish root server

Icann is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid
November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12
Symantec: Half of enterprise data is stored outside the datacentre

As mobile computing and cloud services go mainstream, only 50% of an organisation's information is in its own datacentre, says Symantec
November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12
CIOs distrust public cloud for mission-critical work, says IDC

IT executives are still not confident about running mission-critical workloads on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC
November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12
Oracle buys cloud services provider Instantis

Oracle is buying Instantis, a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company, to boost its cloud portfolio
November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12
Telecity buys Finland datacentre operator Academica for €28m

Datacentre provider Telecity Group buys Finnish datacentre operator Academica for €28m to gain access to Russian markets
November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12
German public sector firm BAG beat data woes with storage virtualisation

German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - found a solution to its data management problems in storage virtualisation
November 02, 2012 02 Nov'12
Manual efforts keep Peer 1 datacentre running amid Hurricane Sandy

Staff at Peer 1 Hosting’s Manhattan datacentre have kept the facility operational by manually delivering fuel to generators on 17th floor
November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12
Tape is not a dead storage concept, but needs reinventing

Despite advances in storage technology such as hard disks, data de-duplication and cloud-based storage, tape is not dead, say experts
October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12
Amazon faces competition as cloud technology goes mainstream

Cloud is becoming a marketplace technology as enterprises look beyond AWS to Openstack-based cloud and Azure, says 451 Research
October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12
German manufacturer Sigel boosts efficiency with storage hypervisor

German manufacturer Sigel used storage hypervisor technology to improve the efficiency of its virtual servers and Oracle database systems
October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12
UK datacentres are not ready for big data impact shows study

UK datacentres are not prepared for the changes that big data will bring, a study of 125 senior IT decision makers revealed
October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12
Cheshire Constabulary polices network with SolarWinds

Police force in Cheshire uses SolarWinds’ infrastructure monitoring tools to keep its IT out of trouble
October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12
Data Centre Alliance hits out at government CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

The UK government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, says Data Centre Alliance
October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12
Archaic datacentre practices are causing inefficiency, says the Green Grid

Today's datacentre energy practices date back to 1950s resulting in energy waste and high carbon emissions, said the Green Grid
October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12
Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco

Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, forecasts Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index
October 23, 2012 23 Oct'12
Rackspace offers 'infinite scalability' with Cloud Block Storage product

Rackspace has launched Cloud Block Storage product with infinite storage scalability to help OpenStack cloud users overcome storage-related challenges
October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12
Intel: Cloud must be more federated and automated

Cloud computing services must become more federated and automated to help enterprise IT use them to deliver more for less, says Intel
October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12
How Sega used hybrid cloud to beat the Christmas sales spike

A combination of private and public cloud helped Sega hasten its games-testing process as well as bring agility, security and scalability to its IT
October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12
Google offers Street View of datacentres

Google offers Street View of its datacentres and a virtual tour of how users' data is stored, with an emphasis on security practices
October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12
Today’s datacentres run at much lower temperatures than necessary

Datacentres are wasting electricity by running at sub-20ºC, as the optimum temperature is 25-26ºC
October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12
Facebook opens first engineering centre outside the US in London for mobile

Facebook has opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US to develop its mobile products
October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12
'Big three' datacentre power suppliers hold nearly 50% of the market

Three datacentre cooling infrastructure providers - Schneider Electric, Emerson and Eaton - held 47% of the datacentre energy market in 2011
October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12
VMworld Europe: Horizon Suite to help IT manage corporate assets on Apple iOS

VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers’ mobile devices including on Apple iPhones securely
October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12
VMworld Europe 2012 kicks off in Barcelona

VMworld Europe 2012 opens with updates from VMware on the cloud and new management suites
October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12
Complex and non-transparent Oracle licensing costing firms millions

Companies virtualising Oracle databases with VMware platforms face millions in penalties over non-compliance
October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12
Case study: How to virtualise SAP and migrate from IBM onto x86

At VMworld Europe Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores gave an overview of how it virtualised an SAP environment and migrated from an IBM mainframe to x86
October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12
VMware tools up for software-defined datacentres

At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware addressed how it would tackle greater IT complexity through management and automation